Shower Tanking & Waterproofing in Stoke
Specialist wall and floor tiling — including large-format and stone.
Tiles and grout are not waterproof. They're the wearing surface. The waterproofing is the layer behind them, and it's the part nobody sees — which is exactly why it's the part most often skipped on a Stoke bathroom.
We tank as a separate, deliberate stage: board the substrate, tape and seal every internal corner and junction, collar the pipe penetrations, then two coats of membrane with the second at right angles to the first.
If you're weighing up bathroom & wet-zone tiling in Stoke, the local detail matters more than the brochure spec.
Waterproofing questions from {town}
- Do I need tanking if I'm only tiling one wall in Stoke?
- If that wall takes direct shower spray, yes. Outside the wet zone in a normal Stoke bathroom, a sound boarded substrate is generally sufficient.
- Can you tank over plasterboard?
- Standard plasterboard isn't the right base for a wet zone. We replace it with a suitable tile backer board in the shower area, then tank that.
- What about the joint between wall and tray?
- That junction gets sealing tape bedded into the membrane before tiling, plus a silicone movement joint afterwards. Two lines of defence, not one.
- How long before you can tile?
- The membrane needs its full cure between coats and before tiling. On a Stoke job that normally means the tanking stage occupies its own day in the schedule.
- Do you tidy up at the end of each day?
- Yes — dust sheets stay down, the room is hoovered daily and we leave your Stoke home liveable while the work runs.
- Are you fully insured for work in Stoke?
- Yes — we hold full public liability cover and every job in Stoke comes with a written workmanship guarantee.
Our shower tanking & waterproofing process in Stoke
We work through it in this order, and you'll know what's happening each day:
- 1Step 1 in Stoke: set out the room dry to avoid awkward cuts in eye lines.
- 2Day 2 for a Stoke job — hand-cut and diamond-cut every detail — inside corners, recesses, niches.
- 3Stage 3 on site at Stoke: grout with a colour matched to the tile, sponge clean as we go.
- 4Step 4 in Stoke: silicone all internal corners as a movement joint.
- Schlüter trims for clean external edges — specced for Stoke jobs.
- Porcelain (rectified, slip-rated where needed), used in Stoke installs.
About Stoke
Locally, Stoke is part of Stoke-on-Trent City Council's area within Staffordshire, covering postcodes ST4. Stoke town centre is dense with two-up-two-down Victorian terraces around the railway station, mixed with later infill flats near Campbell Road. Main routes through are A500 and A34, which is why our vans pass close to Stoke most days.
Our regular Staffordshire routes
Nearby places we cover within roughly a 15-minute drive of Stoke:
Service radius is approximate and based on our regular weekly routes.
Our tanking stages in {town}
What we commit to on every shower tanking & waterproofing job in Stoke:
- Tanking photographed at completion of both coats before tiling (standard on every Stoke shower tanking & waterproofing install).
- Every corner, junction and penetration taped or collared as a separate stage (standard on every Stoke shower tanking & waterproofing install).
- Tiled thousands of square metres across Staffordshire, every Stoke job.
- Specialists in 1200x600 large-format and 1500x750 slab tile — proven across Stoke.
- Stone-care trained — sealing before and after grouting on every install we run in Stoke.
Tank it properly before the tiles go on
Free Stoke survey of the substrate, plus photos of the tanked walls before tiling starts so you can see what you paid for.
- Specialists in large-format and natural stone
- Hand-cut details, not snapped edges
Shower and wet-room tanking in Stoke — backer board, taped junctions, collared penetrations and a two-coat membrane before any tile.